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Definition of vervet in English: vervet(also vervet monkey) noun ˈvəːvɪtˈvərvət A common African guenon with greenish-brown upper parts and a black face. Cercopithecus aethiops, family Cercopithecidae, in particular the race C. a. pygerythrus of southern and eastern Africa Compare with green monkey, grivet Example sentencesExamples - They were studying vervet monkeys living freely in their natural state in Amboseli National Park in Kenya.
- Look out, too, for vervet monkeys, baboons - and giant tortoises.
- Humans, apparently just like vervets, can't resist observing, memorizing, and uttering distinctions.
- A great many of us are familiar with the baboon and vervet monkey.
- What motives drive the leader of a group of vervet monkeys to take risks on behalf of all, especially since he joined them from another tribe?
- Among the monkeys species found in East Africa are the blue or syke monkey, the vervet monkey and the colobus monkey.
- One can observe these reactions in vervet monkeys, which give a different alarm call for each class.
- Tsavo West is filled with crocodiles, vervet monkeys, antelope, baboons, giraffes and hippos.
- Fairbanks has found similar results in a study of impulsivity in female vervets, not yet published.
- This Forrest is home to baboons and vervet monkeys.
- A free-ranging vervet monkey, baboon, or macaque recognizes other members of his group as individuals.
- And the vervet monkey, Larry, they're in troops of 50 to 100 to 200.
- That research, involving vervet monkeys, linked abnormal serotonin activity to poor impulse control and aggression in the monkeys.
- Among baby vervet monkeys, the males even prefer to play with trucks and the females with other kinds of toys!
- Florida teems with other non-native species - from African monitor lizards to vervet monkeys.
- What is true of vervets is almost certainly true of us.
Origin Late 19th century: from French, of unknown origin. Definition of vervet in US English: vervet(also vervet monkey) nounˈvərvətˈvərvət A common African guenon with greenish-brown upper parts and a black face. Cercopithecus aethiops, family Cercopithecidae, in particular the race C. a. pygerythrus of southern and eastern Africa Compare with green monkey, grivet Example sentencesExamples - And the vervet monkey, Larry, they're in troops of 50 to 100 to 200.
- They were studying vervet monkeys living freely in their natural state in Amboseli National Park in Kenya.
- A great many of us are familiar with the baboon and vervet monkey.
- Florida teems with other non-native species - from African monitor lizards to vervet monkeys.
- A free-ranging vervet monkey, baboon, or macaque recognizes other members of his group as individuals.
- Humans, apparently just like vervets, can't resist observing, memorizing, and uttering distinctions.
- Fairbanks has found similar results in a study of impulsivity in female vervets, not yet published.
- Among the monkeys species found in East Africa are the blue or syke monkey, the vervet monkey and the colobus monkey.
- Look out, too, for vervet monkeys, baboons - and giant tortoises.
- That research, involving vervet monkeys, linked abnormal serotonin activity to poor impulse control and aggression in the monkeys.
- What is true of vervets is almost certainly true of us.
- What motives drive the leader of a group of vervet monkeys to take risks on behalf of all, especially since he joined them from another tribe?
- Tsavo West is filled with crocodiles, vervet monkeys, antelope, baboons, giraffes and hippos.
- This Forrest is home to baboons and vervet monkeys.
- One can observe these reactions in vervet monkeys, which give a different alarm call for each class.
- Among baby vervet monkeys, the males even prefer to play with trucks and the females with other kinds of toys!
Origin Late 19th century: from French, of unknown origin. |